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Weekend of Hampton Court Palace & BBBQ

Remember the recent Singapore Day 09? Yes it was held here at Hampton Court Palace. So sad I couldn't get to go!

Just when I was blogging about feeling lost on how to spend the weekend, literally at the same time (no joke), I heard noises in my garden patio and boo! Yeelin and Felix came by to check on my tap (it was leaking the night before when they were here). So sweet of them! And upon chatting, they said they were going Hampton Court Palace later in the day and invited me to join them (altho I know I'm gonna be like a big light bulb shining shining.. haha) The rain came and they also needed to run some errands prior so after the minor delays, when we reached the palace it was like late afternoon so we didn't really explore much. YL and I paid GBP3.50 each and went to explore the "oldest maze in the world" (as stated in the Guiness Book of Records) while Felix went to snooze under some tree. We walked along the river thames after the palace closed and just chatted about - serious stuff - life issues haha.. it's actually quite good/ interesting to talk about such things once in a while.


The aim is to locate the centre of the maze.


Felix snoozing; we saw lots of bumble bees on this particular type of flower so I had some macro photography exercises here.


I have to make a special mention of these cute little geese we spotted along the river bank. They seem to love having an orderly formation. We observed them for a while.. when a leader goose jumped into the water, everyone followed suit in an orderly manner like they were queueing up! And I took a shot of them in the water. How straight right?! And then we recall studying about their fixed formation when they fly together. How cute is that??


On our long journey home, that was also when we decided to do something really summery.. like a BBQ! It was agreed my garden patio is the perfect setting (after realising we could do al fresco) and it shall take place *drumroll* the next day! *very excited* So came Sunday and I excitedly went to Tesco to get the pork and chicken and also the "secret marinade mix" as recommended by Daryl who shared his tip at last week's BBQ at his place.

The weather was perfect- the sunshine and cool wind (well a bit too strong at some point in time) but it was perfect to start the fire and in the end we had so much food coz they brought salad and pasta; I had the meat from Tesco as well as 20 leftover Ikea meatballs (It was a 1kg pkt!! Took me ages to finish man.. now I'm a bit scared of them. And yes I count them faithfully.. to see when I can finally finish them!) and some garlic bread in the freezer. Oh how could I forget, yes YL brought over our fav ice cream.. mint choc chip ice-cream!!


Can someone shout yummy?! haha


We all agreed it was almost the best BBQ we've ever had - beautiful weather, yummilicious food and great company! Felix called it the BBBQ - Belinda's BBQ. woohoo!~

I'm so gonna have another BBBQ again. Can't wait!
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